Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1967, The Monkees achieved a chart record that remains unbroken 58 years later. In 1967, the band created for the television ...

In the crowded landscape of 1960s pop music, few achievements still feel as startling decades later as this one: The Monkees once sold more albums in a single year than The Beatles and The Rolling ...

In January 1967, the Monkees had a No. 1 hit with "I'm a Believer," a song originally penned by Neil Diamond. Diamond said the head of his record label initially "freaked" and "went through the roof" ...

It was one of the most bizarre tour pairings in the history of music.

Regardless of how many Monkees actually responded to the Hollywood Reporter advertisement seeking "4 insane boys, age 17-21" for a TV show inspired by the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night,” it wasn’t ...

One of the greatest mismatches in rock history took place in July 1967 when the Jimi Hendrix Experience embarked on a massive U.S. tour opening for the Monkees — and promptly ended eight days later, ...

The Monkees were a prefab rock band created by TV executives for an eponymous sitcom that ran from 1966 to 1968. During that time, the group racked up six top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, ...